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[Android Apps and Games] nemuro:
@Anthonok: As Xaffron posted just before you did, please allow a short amount of time before the market apk is updated. In the meantime, you can always download it from the attachment in the first post where I renewed the link. Click here to download.

@crx4xharder: Glad you enjoy it. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] Anthonok:
feels like a douche for not reading...
[Android Apps and Games] xaffron:
@Anthonok: Don't worry about it, I wasn't being very clear in the first place.

v1.0.5 is now available from the market as well. Check out Searchlight mode and let me know what you think!
[Android Apps and Games] :
Why does the market app require internet access?
[Android Apps and Games] xaffron:
@Samurai Drac: The internet access is for a future feature. The code is actually in place (although disabled) for the wallpaper to grab a higher/lower quality bitmap from the web, either for performance or for changeable background colors.

If you're uncomfortable with that capability, let me know and I'll be glad to furnish an APK without that requirement.
[Android Apps and Games] :
No that's okay, just wanted to know :) Thank you for your ridiculously prompt response. Also, great work! Very TRON-ish... maybe add a cyan/tron color theme? ;)
[Android Apps and Games] xaffron:
That's a great idea! Gotta see what nemuro (artist) thinks...
[Android Apps and Games] Anthonok:
Search light is pretty cool. My favorite its still lightning. I just wish there was an option for lightning only on touch
[Android Apps and Games] xaffron:
As of today, our list of (possible) future enhancements:

1. Customizable wallpaper positioning (when wallpaper scrolling is off)

2. Customizable baseline brightness for non-lightning looks

3. Setting for only lightning on touch (no random lightning)

4. Wallpaper color other than blue

5. TRON look and feel

6. Look at pixellation issues on mdpi/ldpi phones

Please let us know here if there are any other issues we need to look at!
[Android Apps and Games] adizz131:
awesome! bought full version!
[Android Apps and Games] tiwey:
any hope for music support?

there are only a few wallpapers that give that option...and they don't do it very well...it would be very nice and i would be happy to donate if it'd support the feature
[Android Apps and Games] eloist:
looks very pixelated on my galaxy tab. dpi says 240

any ideas?
[Android Apps and Games] htcfreak:
Works good on HD2 with HyperDroid & STAXXTANIUM_NAND_A2SD+CWM_V1.1Smart_ASS

Just looks pixeleted, may thats because of the screen density..!!!

DPI for both is 167
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
also looking a bit pixelated on my mobii tegra(advent vega/P10AN01)

EDIT: 160DPI@1024x600
[Android Apps and Games] bloodhawk:
Great work there....using it on the G2. Running CM7 Nightly #12 @ 998Mhz (Ondemand) (Pershoot's latest kernel)

Only problem is that its making the screen transitions lag somewhat. I tried the exactly same home screen setup with Launcher Pro Plus/ADW EX/Stock Gingerbread launcher.

My usual nexuskang setup works darn smooth though.

But great job. Will just stay away from the Donate version for now, at least until it gets optimized a little bit more. or maybe CM7 gets a little bit more stable.
[Android Apps and Games] dr_mac:
love it... works amazing on my hero ;)

thanks man.... :D
[Android Apps and Games] xaffron:
@eloist @htcfreak @thedicemaster: nemuro and I have been trying to minimize the pixellation. The wallpaper itself should not be pixellated, period - the flares are designed to have a "digitized" glow which should be unnoticeable given that they fly by so fast. Where are you seeing it? Can you do us a favor and post a few screenshots + point it out to us?

@bloodhawk: The screen transitions should not lag. When this live wallpaper first came out, we forced 60fps frame rate, which overwhelmed some phones (regardless of brand/speed). Can you go into your "Configure..." screen for the wallpaper and try adjusting the Target Frame Rate? 25 works well for some people, 45 and 60 works well for others. Even 15 looks very decent if your phone/ROM does not have hardware-assisted rendering.
[Android Apps and Games] dougiefresh36:
Pretty NIce
[Android Apps and Games] JFizDaWiz:
some nice wallpaper. up n running as we speak
[Android Apps and Games] :
decked out :D
[Android Apps and Games] Anthonok:
What clock/skin is that?
[Android Apps and Games] :
Clock: Fancy widgets .

Skin: Honeycomb.
[Android Apps and Games] Anthonok:
Thank you
[Android Apps and Games] eloist:
Screenshot attached. It's not really the light beams, it's the background. It is very pixelated with the naked eye. This screenshot doesnt seem to look so bad, but in real life, it's terrible.

Galaxy Tab...completely stock, except running ADW Launcher
[Android Apps and Games] sprinkles:
not that free. this download runs for a minute...
[Android Apps and Games] nemuro:
@adizz131: Thank you for your support.

@tiwey: Sorry, there are enough swiss knife stuff on the market, I'd like to keep this LWP straight to the point. However this is a cool feature to be taken into consideration on a future lwp which wasn't targeted on a specific theme. Thank you.

@htcfreak @thedicemaster: Please do a screenshot so that I can see of what pixelation are you talking about. You wouldn't by any chance experiencing gradient banding instead, would you? Please give us something to work on. Thank you.

@htcfreak: Please take into consideration that the default lcd density setting is 240. Having a custom value is something that can easily create issues in a lot of applications. Please try it after you've tested it in 240 DPI. I did a lot of the testing on my HD2, so I must say no issues appeared for me.

@bloodhawk: Having a powerful device, you can also lower the framerate without losing to much of the fidelity of the animations, you will receive an increase in responsiveness (if needed) especially while switching screens. What framerate are you using? Sorry if I am badly informed, but isn't cm7 gingerbread? Also, from my experience, CM is a very fast rom, and testing this on my weaker hd2 on a full sense rom, makes me think the issues arise from elsewhere. Try reducing the framerate.

@dr_mac: You are welcome. Glad you like it.

@dougiefresh36: Thank you

@JFizDaWiz: Thank you.

@sal2708: Nice screenshot. Is that Gingerbread?

@eloist: What version of the Honeycomb Live Wallpaper are you using? Also, what is the size of the apk you installed? Have you tried Launcher pro to see if the color issues dissapear?

@sprinkles The default mode is free. It runs for ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever.

Now about the Background color change and the Tron suggestions.

This wallpaper was built around the idea of getting close to the look and feel of honeycomb, we basically imagined if that was a live wallpaper how it

would be animated to suit the Honeycomb Experience.

Having the color background of the screen changed, might seem a good idea at first, but it would really kill the feel.

Whereas tweaking the brighness, still might not be that well bit it wouldn't do the same amount of damage to it.

Attached is the worst example I could think of, when you were to play around with the color of the background. It's a photo manipulation of an already existing screenshot.

If after considering it you guys still think it's a good idea, we would look into it.
[Android Apps and Games] mic_888:
@nemuro, @xaffron awesome wallpaper, thanks. Running on my N1 :)
[Android Apps and Games] nemuro:
Actually, we thank you for featuring us on the portal. Glad you enjoy it :).
[Android Apps and Games] eloist:
version 1.05

under manage apps it says the app is 620kb

im not willing to install launcher pro, but i tried the wallpaper with stock samsung g tab home, and it looks the same.
[Android Apps and Games] breexy:
Niiice !!!!!
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
it's most noticable on the left side.

it really looks as if it's trying to display a low-res image on my 1024x600 screen.
[Android Apps and Games] harmohn:
Very nice, thanks :)
[Android Apps and Games] vabeachfc:
just installe it on my mytouch 4g. looks good.
[Android Apps and Games] Jamin_1:
great idea, but its looks so bad! that cant be hq. please fix it.

device: htc desire
[Android Apps and Games] :
@nemuro: why yes it is :D
[Android Apps and Games] xaffron:
@thedicemaster: Are you referring to the sawtooth-like edges of the dark channels?

@eloist: Are you referring to the blue-gray "stripes" to the left and top of the first three flares on the left? Or are you talking about how the blue slopes fade into the black "sky"?

Thanks for working with us...
[Android Apps and Games] Zerox8610:
Its a great Idea. But you're using a LOW RES version of the honeycomb wallpaper. You need to get the HIGH RES version. VERY EASY TO FIND BTW. It's on the market "Honeycomb Wallpapers" By GFX Android.

Use that version, and improve the quality of the flares, I can easily see pixelation on my screen. But it does look a lot better than it used to!
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
yes, and the intermittent trail on the blue flare, and the blockyness of the flares.
[Android Apps and Games] bloodhawk:
Was using it on the default settings. I just now tried reducing the framerate down to 15fps, but the result was the same. I will flash the sense based ROM, try it there and get back to you. Thanks again for the great LWP and the fast support..

UPDATE: I flahed a sense based ROM, and then installed. Though the slowdown is easily apparant, its not as severe as on cm7. One weird thing is the no matter what framerate i use the amount of sluggishness remains exactly the same.
[Android Apps and Games] xaffron:
@bloodhawk: Thanks for testing this out. It seems like the slowdown is due to the phone/homescreen rather than the live wallpaper, from what I can see... let me explain.

The live wallpaper's target framerate controls how often the wallpaper "requests" an update from the phone/homescreen, but the wallpaper does not control the phone and thus it is the phone/homescreen that ultimately decides when it wants to refresh the screen. For phone/homescreen apps that refresh at 60fps, then the LWP's 60fps setting will result in the smoothest look. For phones that refresh at 30fps or less, then the LWP's 60fps setting will just waste CPU cycles.

It seems like your phone is refreshing the screen at less than 15 fps, which is very unusual since you have a powerful phone. Can you try disabling the "CPU on demand" setting (I'm assuming setCPU) and see if the sluggishness goes away? What is the lowest CPU speed you're set to run at?
[Android Apps and Games] Ryououki:
Not sure if this has already been noted, but on my Motorola Xoom, it has a problem when sliding to the 2 right side pages of the homescreens. It has a flickering image distortion on the far right side that is about an inch long on those 2 pages.
[Android Apps and Games] acme64:
Can you guys make the flairs come from all the way in the back of those tracks you can see? right now they only come from that first hump.
[Android Apps and Games] natious:
All sorts of problems on galaxy tab
[Android Apps and Games] bloodhawk:
Yeap i also think its the phone not the wallpaper at fault here. Because the wallpaper is running butter smooth at all of the fps values available.

I tried switching to the Performance governor, no dice. I even tried going upto 1.5Ghz from my usual 998 Mhz. Again very slight change. So i guess CM7 and bad 2D drivers are at fault here. Ill try installing this on a 2.3 based sense ROM (though im not expecting much since it just a mish mash port). Minimum frequency 245 Mhz.

But even on the 2.2 based sense ROM the result was the same. Either it is some rogue app meddling here. Or just bad 2D drivers. But this is quite surprising because if it is a driver related issue it shouldn't lag on the Stock HTC ROM (not the LWP, the Launcher!). What surprises me even more is that the sluggishness arises only with this particular LWP , every other wallpaper runs buttery smooth.

Is there any log i can provide so as to help in a better diagnosis of the issue?
[Android Apps and Games] xaffron:
Apologies for the lack of updates - nemuro and I are trying to track down the banding and trail pixellation issues, and it looks like this one will take us a few more days to fix. Please be patient while we gather more data and experiement.

@thedicemaster: Gotcha. The flares are blocky as part of the look of the wallpaper... but only the flare "heads" should be blocky, not the tail. The intermittent trail on the blue flare seems fixable with a tweak on our part. Keep in mind that the leftmost channels are almost horizontal and thus for most phones you'll be seeing some pixellation (just because the phone itself doesn't have enough DPI to display a smooth line at that angle).

@Ryououki: Thanks for the tip. This is a new issue for us and high priority... I can't get to a computer today, but I'll try to fix it tomorrow.

@acme64: nemuro will take a look at that, most likely. We did not design for all the tracks to be lit (we wanted a honeycomb look, not a Christmas Tree look); even the multi-colored flares was a departure from our original design (in a nod to the Nexus One of course). If it makes sense and adds to the honeycomb look, we'll include that feature.

@natious: Can you be more specific? We're committed to make the wallpaper work for you, but help us help you by giving us more details.

@bloodhawk: I'm completely stumped at this point. Have you been in contact with nemuro about this issue? If not, PM me your email and we can continue the troubleshooting over email.
[Android Apps and Games] bloodhawk:
Nope haven't been in contact with nemuro .

Have PM'd you.
[Android Apps and Games] ubunthero:
this wallpaper is awsome
[Android Apps and Games] fleischbanane:
Love the live wallpaper!
[Android Apps and Games] xaffron:
Thanks for the compliments, everyone! nemuro and I are putting the final touches on version 1.0.8, which should address the most pressing (stability, pixelation) concerns. This new version should be finalized within the next 24 hours.

As feature enhancements go, we are trying to keep this a honeycomb live wallpaper. We might put out other wallpapers with other themes, but we want to keep it simple and fast (did I say it screams even on my Mytouch 3G?)
[Android Apps and Games] bloodhawk:
The latest version is just amazing. Fixes almost every issue.

Great work! :)
[Android Apps and Games] xaffron:
@bloodhawk: Thanks for the positive comment - except that the latest version isn't out yet! :) Give us a bit of time to package everything up...
[Android Apps and Games] nemuro:
We are close to finishing the fix for the color issues.

Stay tuned as we also prepare something special for the approaching easter. I promise the waiting is worth it.
[Android Apps and Games] bloodhawk:
Aww bummer. :S :(
[Android Apps and Games] xaffron:
Just a quick heads-up - v1.0.8 is now on the market.

- Fixed memory-related FC issues.

- Reduced pixellation issues.

- Reduced banding issues.

- Improved sharpness.

- Fixed glitches on homescreen right-edges on certain devices.

- Fixed Xoom support.
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
still a little rough on the left side, but it's a big improvement.
[Android Apps and Games] xaffron:
@thedicemaster: Thanks for the feedback! I'll let nemuro know and we'll see what we can do to improve the left side. Can you post a screenshot of the problematic area?

@bloodhawk: The next version will have a fix (or at least an option) for speeding up screen transitions at the cost of a pause in redrawing. The pause should be unnoticeable, and that's what I've been working on. Stay tuned...
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
the lanes on the left, as soon as they hit the bottom level, still look a bit jagged while the other lanes now look very smooth.

i don't know if it's intentional, but the area around those lanes also looks dirty(as in rust/mud dirty)

and the (unused) lanes that look like they are coming from the top-left all the way in the back look a little rough and intermittent.

these are only minor details though, which are only barely noticeable on large-screen tablets.
[Android Apps and Games] xaffron:
Good to know. The rough and intermittent lanes are unfortunately an artifact of resizing the original wallpaper to phone-size. That's the same reason why they are unused - there's basically no way to make the flares look good when we only have a few pixels to work with.

As far as the muddy lanes on the left, I'll let nemuro speak up, but I believe these were part of the original honeycomb wallpaper and we left it in for authenticity. I'll work with nemuro to see if there's any more smoothing we can do for the bottom parts of lanes 1-3.

Thanks again for pointing this out!
[Android Apps and Games] breckharrison:
Works great on dell streak
[Android Apps and Games] rangeela2331:
Very nice. downloading it now
[Android Apps and Games] nemuro:
@thedicemaster

Hi,

Here is the image used: http://www.techpocket4phones.net/city_wallpaper.jpg

I just tweaked it to darken an area of the wallpaper, therefore creating a safe zone where you can play with your widgets/shortcuts so that this wallpaper can be used all the time.

The unused lanes would have been something only the tablet user might have enjoyed, even on a hdpi phone it could be something too small to notice. Being given that it was originally developed for phones, having an area created only for tablet users to take full advantage of, would be unfair.

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] acme64:
every once in a while i need to reset the trail length, it always goes back to default by itself.
[Android Apps and Games] xaffron:
@acme64: All settings are written to the phone's shared memory and should be persistent. Can you give me more information?

- What ROM are you running? What device, what Android version?

- Did you put the live wallpaper to run on the SD card?

- Do you have any task managers running that might pull the app's rug out from under it?

Let me know and I'll be glad to troubleshoot.
[Android Apps and Games] acme64:
it seems a bit random honestly

evo on cm7 nightly 34

installed to phone not sd

no task managers at all

I'll try to recreate it and get back to you
[Android Apps and Games] nemuro:
An Easter Egg is now included on the market version.

I will also update the apk on this thread later this day.

Who finds it unlocks some nice goodies.

Let the hunt begin. Good luck. You will need it.
[Android Apps and Games] nemuro:
APK Updated, Link here: http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=575391&stc=1&d=1303489993
[Android Apps and Games] zanderman112:
I have no clue where that easter egg is. I tried the setings, tapping the wallpaper, different things. Any clue?

Sent from my always stock, EC05 Epic 4G
[Android Apps and Games] xaffron:
@Zanderman112: Here's a first hint - it takes more than one tap to get the easter egg.
[Android Apps and Games] galaxysdev:
More hints please?
[Android Apps and Games] xaffron:
Sure - let's try this:

You won't have to switch between screens to get the easter egg.
[Android Apps and Games] nemuro:
Here is a clue that will help in the later stages.

The cake is a lie.
[Android Apps and Games] tzmx:
hmm looks cool. Will gona check it out. Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] bedwa:
Starting to understand what it is..... But I'm going another route. ;)

Edit: GOT IT!
[Android Apps and Games] :
It's an egg with XDA on it(am i right?).
[Android Apps and Games] m356f1:
yeah im using the hints but i still cant figure it out.:confused:
[Android Apps and Games] :
Ok now i deffinetly say i found it :) it's a white egg with some ornaments(orange colour) and with xda logo in the center.
[Android Apps and Games] quickstang:
I got it figured out. :D

Lets just say that Google is your friend and so is a certain post.
[Android Apps and Games] xaffron:
For those of you who got it, congratulations! Please help us keep the game running for the rest of the weekend and keep the secrets to yourselves for just a few more days.

Hope you had as much fun playing as we did coding and testing the egg!
[Android Apps and Games] martin255:
Niceee, I was searching for this a loong time :)
[Android Apps and Games] zanderman112:
I still can't figure it out. Lol I get the "the cake is not a lie" thing, but I still can't get it.

Sent from my always stock, EC05 Epic 4G
[Android Apps and Games] xaffron:
@zanderman112: Can't really give you more hints without giving it all away...

Less swiping, more tapping?
[Android Apps and Games] zanderman112:
Edit: I still haven't figured this out, I tried all the same things as the post below me, plus clicking all the tips that show, changing the settings.

Original mesage:

Hmm, idk lol I'll keep trying.

Sent from my always stock, EC05 Epic 4G
[Android Apps and Games] Mylenthes:
I can't get it. I tried tapping crazily on wallpaper in different spots. I tried clicking source code and dpi in settings multiple times. I tried everything. I don't get what portal/cake is a lie has to do with this. Its starting to frustrate me, been searching for about 30 minutes now.
[Android Apps and Games] Bloodflame:
you're not alone bro

:confused: :confused: :confused:
[Android Apps and Games] m356f1:
GOT IT!!!!!!:)

btw that was pretty difficult to figure out
[Android Apps and Games] Lulzim.:
warkong slowly on my DHD , do you know what can be problem ?
[Android Apps and Games] m356f1:
go into the settings and check your "target frame rate" and "render while swiping". mess around with those and see if that helps
[Android Apps and Games] nicolaid:
Is it in the settings or is it on the wallpaper?
[Android Apps and Games] jacomoof:
thankssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
[Android Apps and Games] nemuro:
Swiping won't help. Tapping is the way forward.

@all: Once you retrieve the egg, you will get the portal quote :).

@ones who found it: Please don't say what's in there for you once you figure out how to get the egg. It really ruins it all.

Happy Hunting.
[Android Apps and Games] vicedens2002:
Happy Easter.... :)
[Android Apps and Games] Blezz:
i vote for another hint.. trying since 1 hour now :D
[Android Apps and Games] xaffron:
@Blezz - as Nemuro said, swiping won't help... tapping is the way to go. I'll also say that it takes more than one tap to get easter egg.
[Android Apps and Games] jmariconda:
this is so frustrating u guys sure are good at hiding an easter egg lol
[Android Apps and Games] Mylenthes:
Now that Easter is officially over, I have officially given up. I used this for a day and everytime I go to my homescreen I try to find it. I bet I have accumulated over an hour of trying to find this thing so I give up.
[Android Apps and Games] CR5N:
This is a great wallpaper but still not got the Easter egg...
[Android Apps and Games] pdx4est:
Easter egg hint time?
[Android Apps and Games] ssenbonzakura:
I've spent over an hour trying to find the easter egg. Still no luck. Any more hints :)
[Android Apps and Games] Mylenthes:
Same

10char
[Android Apps and Games] tejasphatak:
hmmm.. I was able to figure out where to tap on the screen... Just dont know how to kick start the event ... I am still a beginner in SDK...

Sorry.. Nemuro , I had to decompile your code to find it out... :p i've partly figured out the logic (cases).. May be i'm missing something... I'm in office thus I am not able to connect my phone to pc... (got work in office too!! :(:()
[Android Apps and Games] vicedens2002:
I see you have got idea... :D
[Android Apps and Games] xaffron:
Ok, one more hint (actually, pointing to a rather subtle one I did earlier):

Re-examine post # 143 closely.
[Android Apps and Games] tejasphatak:
yay!! i got it activated!!! :)

:):):):)

...

per xaffron... let the egg be rolling...

Sorry for disclosing the secret in the post. I was just to excited too post it.... Post edited....

Here is one hint@

Behold the book of tiger which reveals the "EASTER EGG"
[Android Apps and Games] Mylenthes:
Wow, would've never guessed to plug in and logcat.